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Silk on Wood - Audio Documentary

by robert iolini

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This music feature explores the cultural milieu of the silk string Qin, a 3000 year old, seven-stringed, fretless Chinese zither. Silk on Wood focuses on a small group of musician-scholars living in Hong Kong, dedicated to maintaining the silk string Qin tradition. Listeners are afforded the rare privilege of entering the very private world of the only surviving Silk String Qin society, to witness the dedication and resilience of this reclusive community in the face of the behemoth that is New China.

Throughout its long history, the Qin has been the musical instrument most prized by China's literati or educated class. The upheavals in China from 1949 onwards saw the decline of this literati class and, with it, the culture of silk string Qin. No other instrument has been described and illustrated in such detail, so often depicted in paintings or so regularly mentioned in poetry. It lays claim to the world's oldest detailed instrumental music notation.

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Producer: Robert Iolini
Narrator : Ling Hseuh-Tang
Reader : Darren Yap
Mastering : Timothy Nicastri
Executive Producer : Robyn Ravlich

Produced with the support of the Regional Radio Production Fund

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||| Internationally recognised composer...
||| Two solo albums released on British avant-garde music label ReR Megacorp...
||| Chamber ensembles, Outsider theatre, Large-scale works for radio, audio-drama.

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